April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
August 11 » Spanish–American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
October 18 » The United States takes possession of Puerto Rico from Spain.
November 5 » Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
Day of death October 10, 1960
The temperature on October 10, 1960 was between 10.1 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (3%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
July 21 » Sirimavo Bandaranaike is elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, becoming the world's first female head of government
August 5 » Burkina Faso, then known as Upper Volta, becomes independent from France.
October 12 » Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations to protest a Philippine assertion.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
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